Free Assistive Technology Tools


AT that comes with the Mac (Click here for more info.)
  • VoiceOver
  • Text-to-speech
  • Sticky Keys, Repeating Key Rate, Slow Keys
  • Zoom screen magnifier
  • Changing screen resolution or size of icons

Serotek's "System Access To Go" - Windows
www.satogo.com
Reads text as you mouse over it. Reads from any document/Internet.
Download file onto a sandisk 3.0 flash drive. Then you could take it to any pc and use it. (It just won't have the preferences saved to it (?) You can also download it from the Internet onto your desktop. If you log in with a username and password, it will save your preferences. This is free temporarily. You can also download it for free without having a username and password. You can use it this way, w/o logging in, indefinately. It's just that it won't save your preferences that way.

Open Office.org
OpenOffice.org 3 forms an ideal teaching platform for core computer literacy skills, without tying students to commercial products. The free software licence means students can be given copies of software to use at home. http://www.openoffice.org/

Project Gutenberg
There are nearly 30,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Free Audio Books
For information about who qualifies for alternate format materials under the Section 121 copyright exemption (Chafee Amendment) see: http://www.loc.gov/nls/ reference/factsheets/ copyright.html
Providers:
http://matnonline.pbworks.com/Accessible+Books+and+E-Texts
ttp://websearch.about.com/od/howtofindanything/a/free-audiobooks.htm
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
http://www.readprint.com/